Articles about interface

If you had read All Touch Tablet for some time now you know I'm saying from time to time that touchscreen technology is not the future of user interfaces, but the brain. The moment when we'll be really connected to our gadgets is the moment when we will control them via our thoughts, not gestures. XWave is the first brainwave interface for the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad, an accessory featuring a headphone and an electrode connected to your forehead, that has the purpose of reading your brain waves a...

It's true when people say that many times in order to get any kind of info you just have to ask. I learned this lesson yesterday when I got in touch with Jean-Baptiste Martinoli, CTO Of ExoPC, the company that makes the ExoPC Slate together with Ciara Tech, a hardware based company from Canada.The latter provides the hardware inside the ExoPC Slate while the former is responsible for the software interface which they hope makes all the difference from other Windows based touch tablets and ev...

Still remembering the ExoPC slate tablet with netbook specs inside? We've talked about the ExoPC here and here where we've complained a little about the price (around 800$) and netbook specs which are not the best when it comes to performance but should provide more than decent battery life for couch surfing.If the price can't be changed for now we are happy to announce that the device gets better specs until official launch time a few months from now. The delayed and the upgraded specs were...

One of the amazing technologies in touch tablets niche that I'm waiting for this year is the Pixel QI screen announced for Notion Ink Adam slate type tablet, which has a special rendering mode that resembles eInk screen: increases contrast in direct sunlight and decreases power consumption with the expense of displaying only grayscale colors, but is also capable of motion pictures, unlike eInk screens.It seems there are a lot of fans for Notion Ink Adam already as some artistic renderings ba...

We've talked about ExoPC a few days ago, a 'classic' slate tablet with netbook guts inside. This doesn't mean it's an ordinary device, as its manufacturer intends to add a special software layer to offer a nicer used interaction. Priced at a little under 800$ it's not that expensive either, at least compared to Netbook Navigator Nav 9. We've got now a little video hands on that shows how ExoPC works in real life under Windows 7 Home Premium.It seems that the Atom CPU does a really good job k...

Many people say touch interfaces represent the present and future of user interaction with devices. I happen not to completely agree with this statement as touch input is not suited for all types of applications and definitely you can find a better alternative in many situation like when typing a long message or playing a game (you don't want you hand to be on front of the screen so you can't see what's happening). Microsoft thinks that too, that's why they're working on a touch alternative for ...

Touch screen interfaces didn't even come to their full potential and researchers are working already on the next step after touch screens, which is gestural interfaces where all you have to do is move your hard in front of the screen and those movements are then interpreted by the computer inside the display and translated into commands.It's like what you've already seen in Minority Report, but at a new level that doesn't require any kind of gloves or tracking device on your hand and it will...

ASUS, one of the first manufacturers to launch the netbook concept, is also the first when it comes to mass production of netbook tablets, the T91MT and the recent EEE PC T91, a tablet with Asus Exclusive TouchSuite: a Finger Friendly and Intuitive Touch User Interface.The other details of  T91's configuration are:8.9” LED-backlit / Resistive Touch Panel Intel® Atom Z520  at 1.33 GHz 1GB (DDR2) memory 16GB Solid State Drive,  16GB SD Card, 20GB Eee Storage online 5 hrs, 28...